Township of Freehold, NJ
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2023-12-19
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 265 Right to Farm
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 2 Administration of Government
- Ch 6 Authorities
- Ch 10 Boards, Committees and Commissions
- Ch 11 Traffic
- Ch 17 Approval of Payments and Bills
- Ch 21 Court, Municipal
- Ch 26 Fire Department
- Ch 30 Fire Districts
- Ch 34 Health, Board of
- Ch 43 Payroll
- Ch 47 Personnel
- Ch 51 Police Department
- Ch 59 Tort Claims
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 67 Alarm Systems
- Ch 71 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 75 Amusements
- Ch 79 Animals
- Ch 92 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 97 Campgrounds
- Ch 101 Checks, Returned
- Ch 107 Cigarette Vending Machines
- Ch 111 Commercial and Industrial Buildings
- Ch 115 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 119 Consumer Protection
- Ch 123 (Reserved)
- Ch 125 Cpr/Aed Training
- Ch 126 Criminal History Background Checks
- Ch 127 Curfew
- Ch 134 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 142 Environmental Impact Statements
- Ch 150 Fees
- Ch 154 Firearms
- Ch 158 Fire Insurance Claims
- Ch 162 Fire Prevention
- Ch 166 Floodplain Management Regulations
- Ch 171 Games of Chance and Bingo
- Ch 177 Handicapped Parking
- Ch 182 Housing Standards
- Ch 186 Junk Dealers
- Ch 190 Land Use
- Ch 195 Licensing
- Ch 199 Limousine Certification
- Ch 203 Littering
- Ch 207 Loitering
- Ch 213 Manufactured/Mobile Homes
- Ch 217 Noise
- Ch 224 Parental Responsibility
- Ch 228 Parking Lots and Drives
- Ch 232 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 236 License Fees
- Ch 240 Pool and Billiard Parlors
- Ch 245 Property Maintenance
- Ch 249 Public Records, Access to
- Ch 251 Recreational Cannabis
- Ch 253 Recycling
- Ch 257 Rental Property Registration
- Ch 261 Rent Control
- Ch 265 Right to Farm
- § 265-1 Recognition as natural right.
- § 265-2 Statement of general intent.
- Ch 270 Sewers
- Ch 273 Sex Offender Residency
- Ch 278 Snow and Ice Removal
- Ch 282 Soil Erosion and Sediment Control
- Ch 286 Soil Removal and Soil Fill
- Ch 288 Solicitation
- Ch 290 Solid Waste
- Ch 295 Sports Code of Conduct
- Ch 300 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 305 Swimming Pools
- Ch 311 Taxation
- Ch 315 Taxicabs
- Ch 319 Telecommunications Licensing
- Ch 323 Topographical Maps
- Ch 327 Towing
- Ch 331 Township Buildings
- Ch 332 Township-Owned Property
- Ch 333 Toy Guns
- Ch 336 Trees
- Ch 341 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 346 Vehicles, Recreational
- Ch 347 Vehicles, Unlicensed
- Ch 351 Water
- Ch 355 Water Resources Protection
- Part III: Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 361 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 364 Administration
- Ch 368 Animals
- Ch 373 Food Establishments
- Ch 380 Nuisances, Public Health
- Ch 385 Sewage Disposal Systems
- Ch 389 Swimming Pools
- Ch 394 Wells
- Ch 395 Quarantine and Isolation Standards
- Part IV: Shade Tree Commission Legislation
- Ch 399 General Provisions, Shade Tree Commission
- Ch 400 Shade Trees
- Appendix
- Ch A410 Use of Township Roads by Communications Company
- Ch A411 Cable Television Franchise
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Freehold by Ord.
No. O-81-4. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Land use — See Ch. 190.
[Amended 5-26-2020 by Ord. No. O-20-12]
The provisions of any land use ordinance to
the contrary notwithstanding, right to farm all land is hereby recognized
to exist as a natural right and is also hereby a permitted use everywhere
in the Township of Freehold subject only to Township Health and Sanitary
Codes. The right to farm includes, but is not limited to, the use
of irrigation pumps and equipment, aerial and ground seeding and spraying,
tractors, farm laborers and the application of chemical fertilizers,
insecticides and herbicides as well as other mechanized equipment
and modern procedures; all for the purpose of producing from the land
agricultural products such as vegetables, grains, hay, fruits, fibers,
wood, trees, plants, shrubs, flowers and seeds, as well as the propagation
and maintenance of horses, cows and other grazing stock, and to otherwise
engage in any and all activities set forth in the New Jersey Right
to Farm Act[1] and attendant regulations.
[1]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 4:1C-1, et seq.
The foregoing uses and activities included in
the right to farm, when reasonable and necessary for the particular
farming, livestock or fowl production, and when conducted in accordance
with generally accepted agricultural practices, may occur on holidays,
Sundays and weekdays, at night and in the day, and the reasonable
and unusual noise, odors, dust and fumes that are caused by them are
also specifically permitted as part of the exercise of this right.
It is expressly found that whatever legal nuisance may be caused to
others by such uses and activities so conducted is more than offset
by the benefits from farming to the neighborhood, community, and to
society in general, by the preservation of open space, the beauty
of the countryside and clean air and by the preservation and continuance
of farming operations in Freehold Township and in New Jersey as a
source of agricultural products for this and future generations. This
statement is one of general intent and meant to express a basic philosophy
by which all other ordinances are to be considered and interpreted.
